User:CooperScience/Tropical Storm Amanda (2020)
| Tropical storm (SSHWS/NWS) | |
 Tropical Storm Amanda over central Guatemala on May 31 | |
| Formed | May 30, 2020 |
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| Dissipated | May 31, 2020 |
| Highest winds | 1-minute sustained: 40 mph (65 km/h) |
| Lowest pressure | 1003 mbar (hPa); 29.62 inHg |
| Fatalities | 14 total |
| Damage | Unknown |
| Areas affected | Eastern Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua |
| Part of the 2020 Pacific hurricane season | |
Tropical Storm Amanda was a short-lived but deadly tropical cyclone that caused widespread and significant flooding in Central America in late May 2020.
Meteorological history
[edit]Late on May 24, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) began monitoring the potential for a broad area of low pressure to develop later that week a few hundred miles south of the coasts of southern Mexico, Guatemala, and El Salvador, where environmental conditions were expected to support gradual development.[1] Two days later, a large area of disorganized showers and thunderstorms associated with a broad trough of low pressure developed in this region within a large cyclonic gyre.[2]
- ^ Robbie J. Berg (May 24, 2020). "Five-Day Graphical Tropical Weather Outlook". Miami, Florida: National Hurricane Center. Retrieved June 1, 2020.
- ^ John P. Cangialosi (May 26, 2020). "Five-Day Graphical Tropical Weather Outlook". Miami, Florida: National Hurricane Center. Retrieved June 1, 2020.